Atharva Legal LLP

Tel: +91-11-24370686

Email: contact@atharvalegal.com

ABOUT THE FIRM

Atharva Legal LLP is a full-service law firm offering services in a wide spectrum of areas including transactional, regulatory, advisory, litigation and alternative dispute resolution solutions. We are a team of skilled and competent professionals having experience and expertise in advising and rendering professional legal services to diverse clientele comprising of domestic and international companies, banks and financial institutions, promoter groups, central and state government institutions, domestic and international Non-Governmental Organizations, regulatory authorities and public sector undertakings. Since its inception the firm has built strong relations with its clients on both domestic and international level.

The firm provides quality work led by dedicated team of legal professionals having requisite domain expertise across all disciplines of the profession including judicial and regulatory forums. The firm currently has its presence in Bangalore, Chandigarh, Hyderabad, Mumbai & New Delhi.

The key reason behind setting up Atharva Legal LLP was to provide nuanced time and energy efficient solutions to transactional, advisory, regulatory, dispute resolution and litigation requirements of the clients under a single roof. It was a keen desire of the founding partners to provide commercially viable legal advice and support across varied sectors while ensuring competence and vigil to protect the client’s interests.

HOW WE WORK

At Atharva, we formulate and assign teams tailored to the client’s requirements and allocate nodal persons who are available to ourclients at all times. The assigned team is carefully selected to ensure that members have requisite experience and expertise pertaining to concerned matters.

The Firm values teamwork and encourages individuality, innovation and initiative. Atharva focuses on providing commercially viable and optimal legal solutions to its client’s legal and regulatory issues by ensuring high degree of partner involvement. We strive to build and maintain relationships of mutual trust, respect and integrity with our clients to ensure transparency, accessibility and success.

We are firmly dedicated to serve our clients and deliver effective counsel at all times. Professional commitment and integrity matters the most to us. We understand the needs, anticipations and requirements of the client. We render judicious commercial advice and ensure detailed legal research because we believed that victory loves preparation. We engage multi- disciplinary professionals as and when required to ensure carefully vetted legal solution. Our network of professionals are highly skilled and renowned in their respective fields.

OUR TEAM

Atharva Legal LLP team comprises of Senior Partners, Partners, Principal Associates, Associates & Researchers with its head office at New Delhi and Branch Offices at Bangalore, Chandigarh, Hyderabad & Mumbai.

Key Members:

Atharva Legal LLP, Delhi

Mr. Gyanendra Kumar Mishra

Co-Founder & Senior Managing Partner

Domain Expertise & Focus Areas: 

• Employment & Labor Laws
• Corporate Advisory
• Maritime Laws
• Aviation Sector

Mr. Siddharth Nayak

Founder and Managing Partner

Domain Expertise & Focus Areas:

• Sports Law
• Commercial
• Litigation ADR

Mr. Sagar Devgan

Partner

Domain Expertise & Focus Areas

• Corporate Advisory
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Private Equity & Venture Capital

Mr. Shubhendu Anand

Partner

Domain Expertise & Focus Areas

• Technology, Media & Telecommunication Laws
• Medical & Education Laws
• Direct Tax Litigation
• IPR
• Regulatory Affairs & Public Policy

Ms. Puran Kumari

Partner

Domain Expertise & Focus Area

• Family Law
• Civil Disputes
• Banking & Finance
• Contract Management

Mr. Ayush Anand

Partner

Domain Expertise & Focus Areas

• Pharmaceutical, Healthcare & Medical Laws
• Criminal Litigation
• Administrative Law

Mr. Vibhu Tripathi

Principal Associate

Domain Expertise & Focus Areas

• Civil & Commercial Litigation
• ADR

Mr. G Sai Krishna Kumar

Associate

Domain Expertise & Focus Areas

• Civil & Criminal Litigation

Mr. Yash Raj Singh

Associate

Domain Expertise & Focus Areas

• Technology Law
• Civil & Criminal Litigation

Ms. Kritika Swamy

Director: Field & Academia Program

Atharva Legal LLP, Hyderabad

Mrs. Rachna Bollu Reddy

Senior-Partner

Domain Expertise & Focus Areas

• Civil & Criminal Litigation
• Environmental Law

Mr. Rahul Yerramreddy

Partner

Domain Expertise & Focus Areas: 

• ADR
• Sports Law
• Banking & Finance

Mr. Sumedh Yasaswi

Principal Associate

Atharva Legal LLP, Bangalore

Mr. Michael Saldanha

Partner

Domain Expertise & Focus Areas

• Banking & Finance
• Litigation

Ms. Swathi Rudrakshi Bhandary

Partner

Domain Expertise & Focus Areas

• Sports Law
• Litigation
• ADR

Atharva Legal LLP, Chandigarh

Mr. Shreenath Khemka

Partner

Domain Expertise & Focus Areas

• Election Laws
• Litigation
• ADR
• IBC

OUR NETWORK

Apart from the core team, Atharva Legal LLP network includes individuals and entities across multiple disciplines. We ensure that we have our client’s commercial interests taken care of. Each member within our professional network has come onboard after an extremely meticulous process that has taken into account their verified professional records, experience and expertise in respective professional sectors.

Within the territory of India our network consists of a panel of counsels divided practice area-wise and spread across 650+ districts. We offer prompt services at par with the finest industry standards across all judicial/quasi-judicial forums and jurisdictions. With a panel of 175+ lawyers we are exponentially expanding our network to offer a single window solution to our client’s large-scale litigation requirements and advisory needs.

Atharva Legal Network also includes professionals having prior experience with government and regulatory sectors. Our efficiency is reliant on a trustable network of industry-specific experts, former bureaucrats, retired judicial members, field experts, ex-diplomats, academicians, former members of enforcement agencies, policy think-tanks and corporate investigative agencies.

PRACTICE AREAS

Atharva specializes in various areas of legal professional domains. The firm aims to expand its practice area and jurisidictions by including proven and disciplined professionals in different regions to ensure that our clients receive the finest grade of services available:

• Alternative Dispute Resolution [ Arbitration & Mediation]
• Banking & Finance
• Corporate Advisory
• Employment & Labor Law
• Environmental Law
• Litigation
• Sports Law
• White Collar Crimes
• Tax Litigation
• Insolvency and Bankruptcy
• Intellectual Property Law
• Medical, Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Law
• Educational Laws
• Technology, Media & Telecommunication (TMT) Laws
• Regulatory Affairs and Public Policy

Alternative Dispute Resolution

We have highly specialized industry specific teams for arbitration, mediation and negotiation. We ensure pre-medication of litigation risks for our clients to the best possible extent. Our ADR team carefully vets any/all transactions, contractual obligations and commercial agreements at the very onset to ensure that any future course leading to disputes are taken care in our client’s interests. We are particularly focused on the pre-arbitration resolution process as well. We also consider the contours pertaining to post-arbitration litigation parameters. We understand and alleviate the difficulties that arise even in face of favourable arbitral awards (instances of appeals, execution difficulty and garnishee proceedings) and make sure that we address those issues well in advance to secure our client’s interests.

With over 30 years of cumulative experience across all major institutional arbitration centres around the world at multiple jurisdictions like LCIA (London Court of International Arbitration), SIAC (Singapore International Arbitration Center), MIAC (Malaysian International Arbitration Center), DIAC ( Dubai International Arbitration Centre), and CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport). We ensure unrivalled quality of services for our clients. Our partners in different geographies also have sector-specific expertise in arbitration matters pertaining to commercial, sports, infrastructure, maritime, healthcare, defense and aviation sectors.

Banking & Finance 

Corporate Advisory

Our expertise with financial institutions extends to transactional, advisory and litigation services. Our team acts in relation to all banking matters including acquisition finance for corporate transactions, ECBs (External Commercial Borrowings), Debt Restructuring, SPVs, cross-border investments, escrow transactions, Shipment LCs, project financing and recovery suits. We also provide quality services in equity management and funding projects. Our team routinely advises commercial corporations including NBFCs, directors and officers on regulatory compliance issues, insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings. Our partners understand the nuances of different businesses and investment sectors and have thorough experience in successfully balancing the legal intricacies to complement and enhance their economic gains.

We advise businesses of all sizes including shareholders, management teams, investors and lenders across the world – from initial startups to growth and development transactions, takeovers, mergers, acquisitions, strategic alliances, joint ventures, outsourcing, reorganization or restructuring and closure. Atharva Legal LLP is wellequipped with a worldwide corporate practice and services that run seamlessly across borders.

Employment & Labour Laws

The firm’s expertise in the domain area of Employment and Labor Laws is one of the finest. The team comprising of 11 partners and 7 associates is exclusively headed by Mr. Gyanendra Mishra who has been a leading in-house counsel for Moody’s and Accenture India prior to joining Atharva Legal LLP. With an experience of over 30 years across all segments and categories of employment and labour rules compliances and related litigations, the team’s expertise in rendering sound advice to avoid any employment & labour rules compliance related risks.

Our services comprise of:

• Drafting/Vetting/Managing Employment Contracts
• Taking care of confidentiality – non-compete – non-solicitation aspects between employers and employees
• NDA ( Non-Disclosure Agreements)
• Compliances with Industrial Employment and Model Standing Order
• Contractual Labor (Regulation & Abolition) Act compliance
• Regulations pertaining to rules and guidelines pertaining to Working Women
• Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH ) : Compliance & Audit
• Internal Complaints Committee Proceedings
• Provident Fund for International Workers
• Immigration and People Mobility including migration
• Domestic enquiries pertaining to discriminating actions
• Employee transfer/absorption as a part of Mergers & Acquisitions
• Anti-Bribery / Corruption Policies
• Grievance Redressal and Whistle-Blower Policies
• Inclusion and Diversity Policies
• Disputes/ Litigation pertaining to employment and labour issues

Environmental Laws

Atharva Legal LLP exclusively partners with Enviro Legal Defence Firm (ELDF) for all matters pertaining to Environmental Law. We strongly believe that when it comes down to matters pertaining to Environmental Law we not only have the requisite field experts on our side but also have the policy regulators in our panel as per the client’s requirements. With ELDF and Atharva Legal LLP both at our Client’s disposal, our clients have access to the finest competency and expertise in the domain. The thematic areas of environment and development law where Atharva Legal LLP and ELDF specializes in includes:

1. Regulatory

2. Litigation (NGT and all State

3. Advisory

4. Compliance

Our practice covers creation and regulation of framework for matter of pollution (air/water/land/noise/light), matters of biodiversity and community intellectual property, medicinal plants policy and strategy, biodiversity conservation and rural livelihood linkage policy, decentralization of powers in environmental management. We also look after disputes related to renewable energy, its development and outreach, bio fuels and rural energy systems, development of laws on renewable energy, feasibility of sitting renewable energy facilities, distributed renewable energy law, and off-the-grid solutions in solar energy, marine laws and marine conservation of law, tribal and schedule areas, protection of wildlife reserves and corridors and legal implications for the same. We also oversee water law and policy review, incentive-based mechanism in watershed management and implication in law, minor water bodies and legal implications, legal aspects of rural water supply along with panchayat user group linkage and implication of law, integrated water resource management and law.

Litigation

Our team is well-versed with all kinds of judicial forums due to a practice spanning over 650+ Indian districts and a strong network of 175+ lawyers practicing across all forums including judicial/quasijudicial/ tribunal forums. We are supported by a list of designated senior counsels across all Learned High Courts and the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India who are engaged as per requirements. We carefully evaluate the stakes of our client, consider the parameters of the opposing counsels and the parties, precedents of the judicial bench and all possible contours while formulating the best suited strategy for our clients in any given matter. We have partners and principal associates who have been on the panels of various Central Government ministries, State Government entities and Public Sector Undertakings as well. In addition to the same we have a plethora of experience in constructively engaging ourselves with the in-house counsels. With partners who have worked for MNCs like Accenture and Moody’s and have on the panel of Indian Oil, SAIL, BHEL, NTPC, GAIL, Ministry of Home Affairs, India, Ministry of External Affairs, India etc, we have grown to appreciate harmony and finesse.

Insolvency & Bankruptcy

Intellectual Property Law

The Team specifically undertakes the following categories of work pertaining to the domain area of Insolvency & Bankruptcy:

• Application for initiation of Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process by Financial or Operational Creditors.
• Advising the lenders regarding an on-going Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process.
• Advising and assisting Resolution Professionals/Liquidators regarding on-going Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process / Liquidation.
• Advising directors/ex-members of a Corporate Debtor undergoing Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process.
• Litigation services in matters pertaining to IBC before the appropriate forums

The team handling IPR deals with litigating and guiding their clients on their IP interest. It deals in areas Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Designs, regulations.

Medical and Pharmaceutical Laws

The team of Medical and Pharmaceutical Law at Atharva Legal handles the tricky pharma regulatory environment. It helps with compliance regulatory policy issues, ethics, data exclusivity and protection. The team works with clients along most parts of the product lifecycle, including clinical trials; product approvals; patent filings; manufacturing, distribution, licensing agreements; pricing issues; branding and promotion; product recall; data protection and disputes. The team also handles all the regulatory aspects of Hospital and Healthcare management domain in terms of compliance and litigation, including medical negligence and medical malpractice laws.

We provide assistance in regulatory compliance for import and registration of Drugs, Medical Devices, Cosmetics and Biological products in India as well as we provide all assistance in customs and port related issues pertaining to import of medicinal products.

We provide assistance in approval of new drugs, subsequent new drugs, new medical devices including IVDs and Clinical Trials in India.

We provide assistance in regulatory compliance for product permissions for manufacturing of drugs, medical devices and cosmetics.

We provide assistance in regulatory compliance for post approval requirements in the country.

Education Laws

The Atharva Legal team of Education Law helps in establishment of twinning arrangements and collaborations with foreign universities and regulatory matters with respect to UGC, AICTE, Medical Council of India, Bar Council of India, and other regulatory authorities. We also have in depth knowledge on rules and laws that regulate education at central and state levels.

Technology, Media & Telecommunication Laws

The TMT team at Atharva Legal has latitudinal experience across telecommunication, news media, motion pictures, television, talent and celebrity managements, brand endorsements, music, internet and digital media, publishing, outdoor advertising, social media advertising, public relations, amongst others.

Sports Law

Our dedicated team of sports law comprises of both domestic and international lawyers having years of experience with established sporting leagues and concerned commercials. We have represented a number of the major names across multiple sport disciplines throughout and our network and expertise keeps growing.

Our team understands the sports industry and all the stakeholder entities involved from both legal and commercial perspectives. We put the best interests of our clients at the heart of everything we do and our Clientele includes regulatory authorities, governing bodies, licensing rights owners, franchise owners, sponsors, sporting teams, individual athletes, branding and merchandising entities, sports media broadcasters, sports talent management entities, betting and gambling entities, e-sports entities and player associations. The firm’s expertise extends to sports, gaming, anti-doping, contractual compliance, league management, corporate diligence, agency management and representation. Furthermore, our services under the domain extend to Employment and Labor law compliance, trademark and copyright issues, athlete & celebrity management, etc. Our experience and expertise spans across the full spectrum of the specific domain of sports law offering unparalleled services in sports related litigation, arbitration, mediation, negotiation, sports-related financial transactions including stadium financings, franchise acquisitions, and other corporate matters including mergers, acquisitions, takeovers, marketing regulations, media and broadcasting rights. We offer complete custom legal solutions for any sporting event or any commercial entity right from its inception stage. Our partners constantly engage themselves with policy framers and legislative entities as well to ensure that our clients receive the finest edge possible.

The team also undertakes sports law specific dispute resolution and arbitration work before LCIA, CAS, HKIAC, SIAC, DIAC and MIAC.

White Collar Crimes

With our team of highly skilled lawyers, due-diligence and investigative professionals, former law enforcement personnel and ex-judicial members, Atharva Legal LLP‘s network and expertise to handle any issue pertaining to White Collar Crimes is extremely efficient and effective. We have an exceptional level of experience in this particular domain area. We have successfully handled complex legal issues pertaining to financial frauds, bribery, corruption, Ponzi schemes, money laundering, syndicate operations, cartels, sanctions-related, illegal cross-border transactions, smuggling etc. for both Govt. and Non-Government entities. We act for clients facing investigation by regulators and law enforcement agencies in India, UK, UAE and Singapore. Our team includes attorneys who can handle all contingencies at any stage of an apprehension, inquiry, investigation, agency proceeding and trial in matters pertaining to White Collar Crimes. Our extradition experts specialize in dealing with risks faced by high net worth individuals who can be faced with commercially/politically motivated extradition requests.